[MC-53518] Endermen don't attack endermites spawned using spawn eggs or /summon

Before the most recent update the endermite attracted the endermen. This, I had used to create an ender xp farm. As of the update, the endermen are no longer attracted to the endermite. Not sure if this is a bug or a change that Mojang wanted to make so thought that it might be useful to just say since it's not on any change list which I have seen thus far.

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MC-151683 Endermen do not attack Endermites spawned with enderpearls Resolved

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AlternateMew 2014-04-26T00:34:37Z

Also noticed this while checking out the new endermite model. Tested in Creative and Spectator modes, in the overworld and in the End. Endermen, both from spawn eggs and natural spawn, ignored spawn egg endermites. Unsure about naturally spawned ones.

Warren Liddell 2014-04-27T05:21:38Z

I can confirm this happens

Warren Liddell 2014-04-30T12:20:06Z

This is still an issue in 14w18a

Itouch2 2014-05-01T12:00:26Z

Yes, confirmed for 14w18a

Warren Liddell 2014-05-03T01:27:59Z

Still an issue in 14w18b

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kazblox 2014-05-03T01:40:35Z

Someone look in the obfuscated Enderman class and compare it with 14w11b and 14w18b.

galaxy_2alex 2014-05-06T11:18:56Z

According to a Developer, this is indeed intentional, the functionality has been taken out.

Paul Smith 2014-05-08T20:03:11Z

Makes sense, I'm not surprised, thought it was a feature in the first place. Also, I can't believe nobody actually noticed that endermen would walk from far off instead of teleporting to the target, that's probably a bug.

[Mod] Neko 2014-11-08T05:54:42Z

Not sure which version but this is Fixed.

The problem was when the Endermite is spawned with the spawn egg, it has a tag set to PlayerSpawned:0b. BUT if it is spawned by an enderpearl it is PlayerSpawned:1b. For some reason Endermen only attack Endermite if their tag is PlayerSpawned:1b which can be considered a bug.

Sonicwave 2014-11-10T05:26:58Z

Also Endermen still attack Endermites if no player in Survival or Adventure mode is near it.
Based on the resolution of this report (and several others), they should not attack Endermites at all.

muzikbike 2020-02-28T00:03:38Z

Where was this supposed developer comment on this being intentional?

Warren Liddell 2020-04-07T05:24:38Z

I believe at the time the Endermite were introudced, this was classified as WAI and i firmly believe thats the case to this day.

violine1101 2020-05-10T12:39:54Z

@@unknown, based on when that comment was written, it probably was on IRC and is now lost to time.

Matthias Verlinden 2020-06-30T12:32:59Z

I can confirm for 1.16.1. It happenned to me when I was testing and making an endermen farm

edelewill 2020-07-10T17:13:01Z

Confirmed/Reproduced in 20w28a.

Nathan Apte 2020-11-07T00:28:45Z

Is there any way to bypass this, because I was having the same error.

galaxy_2alex 2020-11-07T12:54:23Z

Give the endermite the "PlayerSpawned:1b" tag.

Aveer 2021-04-23T00:27:53Z

I am using 1.16.5 and this bug is still happening to me. Whenever I spawn an endermite, the enderman do not attack it.